Subj : [ON THIS DAY] - Music History To : All From : TALIADON Date : Thu Jul 13 2023 01:00:02 WWW.THISDAYINMUSIC.COM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______ _______ _______ _ _ _ ______ ______ _______ _ _ (_______)(_______) (_______)(_) (_)| | / _____) (______) (_______)| | | | _ _ _ _ _ _______ | |( (____ _ _ _______ | |___| | | | | || | | | | | | ___ || | \____ \ | | | || ___ ||_____ | | |___| || | | | | | | | | || | _____) ) | |__/ / | | | | _____| | \_____/ |_| |_| |_| |_| |_||_|(______/ |_____/ |_| |_|(_______| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | o MUSIC HISTORY o | | | | o 13 Jul 1963 The Rolling Stones played their first ever gig outside o | | London when they appeared at The Alcove Club, | | o Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, supporting The Hollies. o | | | | o 13 Jul 1964 The Animals went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with o | | 'The House Of The Rising Sun.' Recorded in one take, | | o this was the first UK No.1 to have a playing time of o | | more than four minutes. | | o o | | 13 Jul 1965 Paul McCartney was presented with five Ivor Novello | | o Awards at a lunch party at The Savoy, London. John o | | Lennon refused to attend; Paul was 40 minutes late | | o after he had forgotten about the engagement. o | | | | o 13 Jul 1966 Ike & Tina Turner's 'River Deep - Mountain High,' o | | peaked at No.3 on the UK singles chart, earning them a | | o gig opening for The Rolling Stones. Their success has o | | tragic consequences, as Ike gets more an more violent | | o toward Tina, who endures years of abuse. o | | | | o 13 Jul 1967 Pink Floyd made their second appearance on BBC Top Of o | | The Pops to promote their new single 'See Emily Play' | | o which was hosted by Pete Murray. The single went on to o | | peak at No.6 on the UK chart. | | o o | | 13 Jul 1968 Black Sabbath played their first gig at a small | | o backstreet Blues club in Birmingham, England. o | | | | o 13 Jul 1969 Over 100 US radio stations banned The Beatles new o | | single 'The Ballad Of John and Yoko' due to the line | | o 'Christ, you know it ain't easy', calling it offensive. o | | | | o 13 Jul 1972 During a North American tour The Rolling Stones played o | | the first of two nights at the Cobo Hall, Detroit, | | o Michigan. The Doors, Aerosmith, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, o | | Bruce Springsteen and Kiss have all appeared here. | | o o | | 13 Jul 1974 Elton John started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK | | o album chart with his eighth studio release, Caribou, o | | and his third No.1 album. The album contained the | | o singles, 'Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me', and 'The o | | Bitch Is Back'. | | o o | | 13 Jul 1974 George McCrae started a two week run at No.1 on the US | | o singles chart with 'Rock Your Baby', his only US No.1, o | | also No.1 in the UK. Regarded by some as the first | | o Disco No.1, it was a New York City club hit first. o | | | | o 13 Jul 1974 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played the o | | first of a three night, six show residency at the | | o newly-opened Bottom Line in New York City. The shows o | | received rave reviews and created a buzz in the music | | o industry. o | | | | o 13 Jul 1978 The BBC announced a ban on The Sex Pistols latest o | | single 'No One Is Innocent', which featured vocals by | | o Ronnie Biggs, the British criminal notorious for his o | | part in the Great Train Robbery of 1963. At the time of | | o the recording Biggs was living in Brazil and still o | | wanted by the British authorities, but immune from | | o extradition. o | | | | o 13 Jul 1985 At 12.01 Status Quo started the Live Aid extravaganza, o | | held between Wembley Stadium, London and The JFK | | o Stadium, Philadelphia. The cream of the world's biggest o | | rock stars took part in the worldwide event, raising | | o over $40million. TV pictures beamed to over 1.5bn o | | people in 160 countries made it the biggest live | | o broadcast ever known. Artists who appeared included o | | Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, The Who, U2, David Bowie | | o and Mick Jagger, Queen, Tina Turner, The Cars, Neil o | | Young, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Bryan Adams, Hall and | | o Oates, Lionel Richie and Led Zeppelin. o | | | | o 13 Jul 1985 Duran Duran became the first artists to have a No.1 on o | | the US singles chart with a James Bond theme, when 'A | | o View To A Kill' went to the top of the charts. o | | | | o 13 Jul 1985 Elton John re-signed with MCA Records in America, his o | | five-album deal being worth $8 million, the biggest | | o advance in history at the time. o | | | | o 13 Jul 1987 Representatives of fifty of America's largest record o | | retailers were guests at Michael Jackson's home in | | o Encino, California, to preview his new album, 'Bad'. o | | The LP would go on to sell over 30 million copies | | o worldwide. o | | | | o 13 Jul 1990 Curtis Mayfield was badly injured after a strong gust o | | of wind blew a lighting rig on him during an outside | | o concert in Brooklyn, New York. o | | | | o 13 Jul 1991 Bryan Adams went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with o | | 'Everything I Do I Do It For You' which featured on the | | o soundtrack for the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. o | | It stayed at No.1 for a record-breaking 16 weeks | | o (breaking a record held since 1955), also a No.1 in the o | | US (for 7 weeks) and a hit in 16 other countries. Won a | | o Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a o | | Motion Picture in 1992. | | o o | | 13 Jul 1996 Over 2,000 guitar players, including Chet Atkins and | | o Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, set a new world record for the o | | largest jam session ever when they played 'Heartbreak | | o Hotel' for 75 minutes at Nashville's Riverfront Park. o | | The previous record was set in Vancouver, Canada, on | | o May 7th, 1994, when Randy Bachman led 1,322 amateur o | | guitarists in a performance that lasted 68 minutes. | | o o | | 13 Jul 1997 Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis underwent | | o five hours of hospital surgery after being involved in o | | a motorbike accident in Los Angeles. | | o o | | 13 Jul 1997 The Prodigy started a five-week run at No.1 on the UK | | o album chart with their third album 'The Fat Of The o | | Land'. The album has now sold over 10 million copies | | o worldwide. o | | | | o 13 Jul 1997 A trial against John Denver for drunken driving ended o | | in a hung jury, deadlocked 3-3. Denver's defence | | o attorney argued that the singer suffered from a thyroid o | | condition that had distorted blood alcohol tests. | | o o | | 13 Jul 1999 Paul McCartney displayed 73 paintings at the Kunstforum | | o Lyz gallery in the German town of Siegen. McCartney had o | | been painting for the past 16 years (since he turned | | o 40). o | | | | o 13 Jul 1999 The New Radicals called it a day after just one album o | | and a world-wide hit single. Front man, songwriter and | | o driving force Gregg Alexander said he would concentrate o | | on producing and writing. | | o o | | 13 Jul 2002 Fatboy Slim brought the Brighton area to a standstill | | o when he threw a free beach party. Organisers had o | | expected 60,000 fans to attend, but over 250,000 turned | | o up causing chaos on the roads with traffic jams over o | | ten miles long. Fatboy Slim spent 100,000 pounds of his | | o own money supporting the event after a sponsor pulled o | | out. | | o o | | 13 Jul 2004 Arthur 'Killer' Kane, bass player with The New York | | o Dolls, died aged 55 after checking himself in to a Los o | | Angeles emergency room, complaining of fatigue. He was | | o quickly diagnosed with leukaemia, and died within two o | | hours. The influential American band formed in 1972 and | | o made just two albums, the 1973 'New York Dolls' and o | | 1974 'Too Much Too Soon'. His estranged wife wanted to | | o honour her late husband's wishes and bury him next to o | | former Dolls stars Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan in | | o Mount St Mary's cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, but o | | officials at the morgue refused to release his body for | | o burial because his remains were so decomposed. His body o | | had laid in a morgue for over a month. | | o o | | 13 Jul 2007 Rod Stewart collected his CBE from Prince Charles at | | o Buckingham Palace. The singer who was honoured for his o | | services to music wore a skull and crossbones tie, | | o white trousers and a stripy shirt instead of the o | | conventional morning suit. | | o o | | 13 Jul 2007 The first day of the three day Latitude Festival took | | o place at Henham Park Estate in Suffolk, England, o | | featuring: Damien Rice, The Good, The Bad And The | | o Queen, Arcade Fire, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Magic o | | Numbers, Wilco, The Rapture and Jarvis Cocker. | | o o | | 13 Jul 2012 Roger Waters' tour 'The Wall Live', topped worldwide | | o concert ticket sales for the first half of 2012. The o | | show, based on Pink Floyd's hit 1970s album, took | | o $158.1m beating both Bruce Springsteen and Madonna. o | | Waters sold 1.4 million tickets according to Pollstar | | o magazine, which tracks the live concert business. o | | | | o 13 Jul 2013 Five people were arrested and ejected from the 'T in o | | the Park' music festival in Scotland, for possessing or | | o using pyrotechnic flares. There was also another 53 o | | arrests, mainly for petty crimes and minor drugs | | o offences. o | | | | o 13 Jul 2015 Rapper 50 Cent filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy o | | protection. A report in the Wall Street Journal said | | o the businessman and actor had assets and debts in the o | | range of $10m to $50m. The news came out just days | | o after a jury ruled that he must pay $5m to a woman o | | suing over a sex tape case. | | o o | | 13 Jul 2019 George Michael's family and lawyers stepped up their | | o battle to force Fadi Fawaz to leave the singer's former o | | home after he broke a number of windows. The jobless | | o squatter admitted smashing windows at George Michael's o | | old house, but bizarrely claimed he was doing home | | o improvements. Fadi was seen smoking a joint on the o | | balcony next to some of the smashed windows. | | o o | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | o o | | BORN ON THIS DAY | | o o | | 13 Jul 1938 American bassist Al Rex (Albert Floyd Piccirilli). He | | o started playing for Bill Haley & His Comets and its o | | predecessor Bill Haley and the Saddlemen in 1949, and | | o became noted for 'wild antics' on stage. He died on 24 o | | May 2020 age 91. | | o o | | 13 Jul 1941 English singer-songwriter, Steve Gibbons. He was a | | o member of The Ugly's. In 1969, Gibbons teamed up with o | | guitarist Trevor Burton, from The Move, and formed a | | o new group called Balls. He then joined The Idle Race o | | for three months in 1971, and this band evolved into | | o the Steve Gibbons Band who scored the hit 'Tulane'. o | | | | o 13 Jul 1942 Roger McGuinn, guitar, vocals, The Byrds, (1965 US & UK o | | No.1 single 'Mr Tambourine Man'). He was the only | | o member of The Byrds to play on the hit, the others o | | being session players. He toured with Bob Dylan in 1975 | | o and 1976 as part of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, and o | | later worked with fellow ex-Byrds Gene Clark and Chris | | o Hillman to form McGuinn, Clark and Hillman. o | | | | o 13 Jul 1942 Stephen Bladd, drummer with American rock band The J o | | Geils Band, who had the 1982 US No.1 & UK No.3 single | | o 'Centerfold' which was taken from their US No.1 1981 o | | album 'Freeze Frame'. | | o o | | 13 Jul 1955 Mark "The Animal" Mendoza, bassist Twisted Sister, | | o (1983 UK No.18 single 'I Am, I'm Me', 1984 album 'Stay o | | Hungry'). The Dictators. | | o o | | 13 Jul 1961 Lawrence Donegan, bassist from British pop band Lloyd | | o Cole And The Commotions who had the 1985 UK hit single o | | 'Brand New Friend'. Between 1984 and 1989, the band | | o scored four Top 20 albums and five Top 40 singles in o | | the UK. | | o o | | 13 Jul 1966 Gerald Levert, R&B trio LeVert, who scored a UK top 10 | | o single with 'Casanova' in 1987. Died of a heart attack o | | 11th Nov 2006, aged 40. The singer who was the son of | | o O'Jays vocalist Eddie Levert. o | | | | o 13 Jul 1969 Mark Greenway, singer, Napalm Death, Extreme Noise o | | Terror and Benediction. | | o o | | 13 Jul 1974 Deborah Cox, Canadian R&B singer-songwriter and | | o actress. Her 1998 song 'Nobody's Supposed to Be Here' o | | held the record for longest-running number one single | | o on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart o | | (14 weeks). | | o o | | 13 Jul 1988 Tula Paulinea "Tulisa" Contostavlos, English singer- | | o songwriter. She is best known for being a member of hip o | | hop group N-Dubz. During 2011 to 2012, she participated | | o as a judge on The X Factor. o | | | | o o | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | o o | | Posted courtesy of TALIADON BBS (taliadon.ddns.net) | | o E&EO : All information taken directly from WWW.THISDAYINMUSIC.COM o | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: TALIADON BBS (21:3/138) .